3. Obesity ain’t a river in Egypt, but the river may cause obesity. Finally, the US Environmental Protection Agency is auditing the nation’s drinking water. My guess: we’re all drinking feminizing, toxic, roiling mixtures of endocrine disruptors. The nation’s water system is part of the infrastructure, and, like energy, needs a re-do. Probably we’ll be able to pin point some of the more egregious sources of endocrine-disrupters/obesity causing agents.

4. The Biology of Affiliate Fraud. Mr. Madoff targeted the Jewish society members and fake Rockefeller targeted the upper crust WASPS – are they amateur neurosociologists? Humans are herding animals at heart, and so this kind of affiliative fraud probably has a biological basis. More on that in 2010.